How to Use Drop Sets | Form Check

Are you tired of doing every single workout with the same stale setup? If you're not challenging your muscles with increasingly heavy weights or new techniques, you're not going to see any growth. If you want introduce a new challenge to your lifting session without necessarily ramping up the load, you'll want to try out drop sets.

For this strategy, you need to know how to approach your workout right—especially because it's such a killer way to pack on additional volume, too. Let Men's Health fitness director Ebenezer Samuel, C.S.C.S. and associate fitness editor Brett Williams guide you through the technique's subtleties, saving you from going about it the wrong way and keeping you from unlocking your fitness potential.

Before you start running racks, take note that it's extremely important to pay attention the format. There are more than one style of drop sets, and your timing means more than you might think. Let's break down everything you need to know.